He's wrong. Technologically aided self-stimulation, both electric (vibratory) and synthetic (plastics!) are 20th century innovations with no, as far as I know, pre-modern counterparts.
Really? Would vegetables and minerals count as "technology?" Surely folks have been using those forever. No beautiful jade dildos in history's annals, or what?
He's wrong. Technologically aided self-stimulation, both electric (vibratory) and synthetic (plastics!) are 20th century innovations with no, as far as I know, pre-modern counterparts.
Posted by Jonathan Dresner | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 1:59 PM
Really? Would vegetables and minerals count as "technology?" Surely folks have been using those forever. No beautiful jade dildos in history's annals, or what?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 2:21 PM
No beautiful jade dildoes that vibrate.
What about bukkake?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 2:24 PM
Not to mention sex in airplanes, sex while scuba diving, sex on acid, cybersex . . .
Posted by arthur | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 2:38 PM
From what I know of bukkake, it's supposedly based on an ancient Japanese tradition for punishing adulterous women. Maybe that's an old wives' tale.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 7:15 PM
Dude, you said annals.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 7:27 PM
The Wikipedia thinks otherwise, but it's been wrong before. (Hurry! That page is apparently going to be deleted!)
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 7:48 PM
Actually, most of the votes on the Wikipedia deletion page are "Keep" so it's a fair bet that the article on bukkake will stay.
Posted by LarryB | Link to this comment | 11-15-04 8:24 PM